Freelancers, as the name suggests are the people free from bindings. Not bound by an employer, office hours and attires. They are free from all the regular and usual shackles. Freelancing has always been as evident and contemporary as the (contractual) full-time jobs. Freelancers are majorly involved with writing, programming, web designing, editing, advertising and other job works.

As much awesome as it sounds being a freelancer, it is equally beneficial to hire one. One saves a lot of resource cost on hiring freelancers. To list a few:

1. Cost – The first and foremost benefit of hiring a freelancer is cost. An enterprise planning to board a full-time employee attaches a lot of cost to the recruitment. Salary, leaves, paid leaves, HRA, allowances, etc, etc. Well, a few of these contents might overlap the freelancing cost, but they are very little in number and petty in value. Hire freelancers online dodges all these costs, making it very economical for the organizations.

2. Timely execution – Freelancers are not full-time employees. They do not get a fixed amount at the end of the month, despite swirling business, low revenues, bad market conditions. Freelancers are self-employed. A self-employed tries to maximize his/her earnings just like an entrepreneur. This makes timely execution very crucial and imperative for a freelancer and to move on to the next project/piece.

3. No or less training – Hiring a full-time resource at times, requires a lot of training and time, especially a fresher. You might need to explain or may be train a freelancer sometimes but, that would surely be trivial as against full-time hiring.

4. The flexibility of time – Although it looks greener on the other side, but flexibility plays a dual role as a benevolent. As there are no time bindings, they might be up late or early, blogging/updating/responding.

A lot more can be added to the above, researches say freelancers are more creative/innovative and work more independently. Freelancers have a variety of experiences from working with various businesses and clients.

With the advent of the internet, we live in a virtual marketplace that has created a virtual rendezvous for the seekers and doers. This has made the world shorter and opportunities nearer and faster. The Internet has helped freelancing leverage the economies in the service sector.

As much as I understand, for an analogy-Freelancers are like cloud computing, without heavy investments in the resources you get it, whenever and whatever you need.